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Stickers

When rebuilding his R80G/S-PD, Bruce Marshall from New-Zealand had some difficulty with
replacing Gaston Rahier's signature writen on the tank. So he decided to make adhesive
decals stikers copies of the signature.
At the same time, he also made some stickers showing the actual Dakar Rally logo (copy
from the F650GS Dakar stikers) but with "Paris-Dakar" text.

Double rear light

GS rear lights are small, so riding by night or by foggy/rainy weather is
dangerous. So I was tempted to install a fog light. At that time,
TOURATECH started to produce an
additional rear light using LEDís. As you know, LEDís give powerful light
using only few energy and they have a long life time.
Finally, after some test I'm using that additional rear light but with a
special wiring in way to have the possibility to use it as fog light.
A 3 positions switch on the dashboard offer the possibility to:

use the bright LED's as second brake light

use the bright LED's as fog light

never use the bright LED's (can be useful in case of problem with unfriendly
policeman).

To prevent any problem with the police, I decided to hide the Touratech LEDís
into a second eom GS rear light. Other interest of that solution, the body of
the second light can be used as spare for the first one.
That second rear light is installed on the rack of my HPN G/S. At that height,
it's perfectly visible as the 3rd brake light used on cars.
R80-100GS owner can install such additional rear light just between the rear
blinkers under the rack of the subframe, no hole to be drilled, you have just
to use the blinkers fixing points.